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Aurora police made public the dash cam video of a traffic stop before a teen exchanged gunfire with police and ultimately shot himself. They made the video public Monday afternoon in a Facebook post attributed to Police Chief Kristen Ziman. The post also described the October 4 incident in detail...

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Scores and highlights may be emailed to tribwestsports@gmail.com Note: Schedules are subject to change because of weather and other factors. FOOTBALL HIGH SCHOOLS WEEK 6 FRIDAY'S GAMES BIG NORTHERN Genoa-Kingston at Rockford Christian, 7 p.m. CATHOLIC GREEN Marmion at Fenwick, 7:30 p.m. CATHOLIC WHITE Aurora...

The Chicago Tribune suburban sports department has teamed up with The Cube to present the rankings of the top 20 high school football teams in the Chicago area. See last week's rankings here. With records and previous rankings: 1. Lincoln-Way East 5-0 (1) Last week: Defeated Lincoln-Way Central...

Scores and highlights may be emailed to tribwestsports@gmail.com Note: Schedules are subject to change because of weather and other factors. FOOTBALL HIGH SCHOOLS WEEK 6 FRIDAY'S GAMES BIG NORTHERN Genoa-Kingston at Rockford Christian, 7 p.m. CATHOLIC GREEN Marmion at Fenwick, 7:30 p.m. CATHOLIC WHITE Aurora...

Embrace the heat. That was the message West Aurora coaches emphasized to their players last week, stressing conditioning and staying hydrated in preparing for Saturday's battle for first place in the Upstate Eight Valley at South Elgin when temperatures were expected to top 90. The weatherman didn't...

Lifestyles

Oswego's Little White School Museum is seeking photos of Oswego area residents who served in the nation's military for addition to the Wall of Honor during its annual Remembering Our Veterans exhibit. This year's exhibit will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Nov. 4 to 12, at the museum, 72 Polk St. Special...

Vines crawl across the ceiling at Batavia Diner — they've been growing from the original plant for seven years. Customers bring in new plants all the time to add to the scenery. That alone makes this place memorable. But the diner also specializes in Mexican food and unusual combinations concocted...

Kristin Chenoweth said she grew up singing in church knowing that's what she wanted to do the rest of her life. In college, her teacher and mentor Florence Birdwell helped her fine tune her soprano voice, helping her earn a master's degree in opera performance. Classical music "was part of my DNA,"...

Something wicked this comes … it's the cold chill down your spine, the little hairs on your arms suddenly standing at attention, the throb of terror in your veins. With Halloween quickly approaching, area haunted houses are creaking open their doors and letting loose the tortured souls that have...

Opinion

Matthew Habib is hardly a stranger to adversity. The 37-year-old former Marine and Customs and Border Protection officer who worked in Nogales, Arizona, says he's not only been shot at multiple times on the job, he "came close" to having his leg amputated from a work-related incident that, despite...

While questions still remain and the controversy has hardly blown over, there are a few undeniable facts regarding the debacle at the Fred Rodgers Magnet Academy. East Aurora School District 131 administration is truly sorry that, just days before the new academic year kicked off, dramatically...

Statute bandwagon: I am just wondering if all these statues in the South that people want removed all of a sudden — if they were so offensive, why didn't it come up before except for a few individual cases. Now all of a sudden everyone like Al Sharpton wants it removed. He's been around for 40...

Howard Keskitalo, a first lieutenant with the U.S. Army's 388th Bomb Group and 563rd Bomb Squadron, flew 35 missions aboard a B-17 bomber in World War II, including during the D-Day invasion of Normandy in France. And still, the retired Caterpillar man, who will turn 97 next month, was not all...

Aurora police are seeking the public's help in finding a man who shot at a passing car Friday night in the city's Hometown subdivision. A 21-year-old Aurora man was driving north in the 800 block of Serendipity Drive shortly after 8 p.m. when an unidentified man on the east side of the street fired...

Prosecutors can use evidence obtained through a GPS tracking device planted on an Aurora man's car in connection with a 2014 armed robbery and shooting at a KFC restaurant on the city's East Side. Kane County Circuit Judge Linda Abrahamson granted the state's motion to dismiss Joshua Scott's move...

A 48-year-old Sugar Grove man has pleaded not guilty to charges he took collectible coins and game-worn baseball jerseys — with an approximate value of at least $25,000 — from another man, court records show. William Boyle remains held in Kane County Jail on $100,000 bail after recently denying...

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Aurora police made public the dash cam video of a traffic stop before a teen exchanged gunfire with police and ultimately shot himself. They made the video public Monday afternoon in a Facebook post attributed to Police Chief Kristen Ziman. The post also described the October 4 incident in detail...

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Facing assured defeat, Republican leaders decided Tuesday not to even hold a vote on the GOP's latest attempt to repeal the Obama health care law, surrendering on their last-gasp effort to deliver on the party's banner campaign promise. "The bill is dead as a door nail," said Sen. John Kennedy,...

In one of the biggest crackdowns on the corrupting role of money in college basketball, 10 men — including a top Adidas executive and four assistant coaches — were charged Tuesday with using bribes to influence star athletes' choice of schools, shoe sponsors, agents, financial advisers, even tailors....

The U.S. ramped up its response Monday to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, even as President Donald Trump brought up the island's struggles before Hurricane Maria struck — including "billions of dollars" in debt to "Wall Street and the banks which, sadly, must be dealt with." The Trump administration...

The conduct of detectives who convinced a learning disabled 16-year-old boy to confess to a rape and murder in the "Making a Murderer" case "made my skin crawl," a federal appeals court judge in Chicago said Tuesday. But if 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Diane Wood's harsh criticism of...

The funeral for Kenneka Jenkins, the Chicago teen found dead in a hotel's walk-in freezer in Rosemont, will be held this weekend on the Far South Side, church administrators said Monday.The death of 19-year-old Jenkins has drawn national attention, with her family asking the FBI to investigate...

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